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Corrections Act 2004

Corrections system - Statutory roles and responsibilities - Other persons with other powers and functions in relation to prisoners

11: Prison manager and other staff of prisons

You could also call this:

"Who runs and works at prisons in New Zealand"

The chief executive must appoint a prison manager and other staff for each prison that is not a contract prison or a Police jail, under the Public Service Act 2020. You need to know that the prison manager and staff are chosen because they are suitable for the job. The chief executive chooses how many staff members are needed.

For contract prisons, the contractor is in charge of appointing a prison manager and other staff. The Commissioner of Police does this for Police jails, and they might call the prison manager a jail manager. The person in charge of the prison can hire independent contractors to provide services that are not about guarding prisoners.

These services can include things like chaplaincy, counselling, education, and health services for prisoners. They can also include services that help prisoners get back into the community after they are released, like laundry and catering. Each prison must have enough staff members of each gender to make sure all the jobs that need to be done can be done.

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Statutory roles and responsibilities: Other persons with other powers and functions in relation to prisoners

11Prison manager and other staff of prisons

  1. For every prison (not being a contract prison or a Police jail), the chief executive must appoint under the Public Service Act 2020—

  2. a suitable person as prison manager; and
    1. as many other suitable persons as are required as employees.

      1. For every contract prison, the contractor must appoint—

      2. a suitable person as prison manager; and
        1. as many other suitable persons as are required as employees.

          1. For every Police jail, the Commissioner of Police must appoint or designate—

          2. a suitable person as prison manager (who may be called the jail manager); and
            1. as many other suitable persons as are required as employees.

              1. The chief executive (in the case of a corrections prison), the contractor responsible for managing a contract prison (in the case of a contract prison), or the Commissioner of Police (in the case of a Police jail) may, from time to time,—

              2. engage any suitable person as an independent contractor to provide non-custodial services in respect of the prison; or
                1. enter into other arrangements to provide access to those services.

                  1. For the purposes of subsection (4), non-custodial services includes (without limitation)—

                  2. chaplaincy, counselling, educational, health, or other specialist services for the prisoners in the prison; or
                    1. any other services provided to assist the rehabilitation of prisoners in the prison and their reintegration into the community; or
                      1. laundry, cleaning, catering, or other services in relation to the prison.

                        1. Every prison must have the number of staff members of each gender that is sufficient to ensure that all duties required by this Act or by any regulations made under this Act to be carried out in the prison by staff members, are able to be carried out in that prison.

                        Compare
                        • 1954 No 51 s 6
                        Notes
                        • Section 11(1): amended, on , by section 135 of the Public Service Act 2020 (2020 No 40).